Checklist does not load about obsidian-checklist-plugin

[delashum]

Can you screenshot me the error the console is throwing?

[brimwats1]

[matpatterson]

I am seeing this same issue

[delashum]

Okay yeah this is the same issue as #33. The problem is that there are multiple ways to format a YAML list:

# A
tags: [one, two]

# B
tags: one, two

# C
tags: 
  - one
  - two

and I only support A. So either this plugin needs to support all of these formats, or you can change your YAML to use A.

I am curious, how do you have your tags formatted?

[brimwats1]

Ah that means that it would be incompatible with the latest changes in the mdnotes extension changes which does YAML like C
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/zotero-zotfile-mdnotes-obsidian-dataview-workflow/15536

I hadn't used YAML or formatted my tags until this week, I wanted to use checklist with mdnotes in order to auto extract certain highlights as checklists that I could come back to

[delashum]

Yeah, and they are adding the hash before it as well, which not all do. This is a tricky problem since everyone seems to format their YAML a bit differently. I will just add support for all these then

[chetachiezikeuzor]

I'm also having the same issue. I used the plugin before and it worked fine. My format has always been the same.

[pjeby]

Perhaps the plugin should use the parseFrontMatterTags() API?

import {parseFrontMatterTags} from "obsidian"

// ...

const getFrontmatterTags = (cache: CachedMetadata, todoTag?: string) => {
    const frontMatterTags: string[] = parseFrontMatterTags(cache?.frontmatter) ?? [];
    // ...
}

This will handle tags that are formatted as "x, y, z" or "x" as well as the correct "[x, y, z]". It also handles fields named Tags, tAg or any case/plurality variant thereof, making your parsing compatible with how Obsidian does it. The returned tag list also has the # added, if it was omitted from the frontmatter... but doesn't double them up if they were already there.

[delashum]

Well I'll be damned, I had no idea that was part of the API. That's definitely the way to do it. Do you know if supports method C that i described above?

[pjeby]

Your case C is the same as case A, in the sense that it is a YAML list value. Case B is a string value that contains commas. The API handles both lists and comma-delimited strings, so yes.

The type declarations for front matter parsing functions can be found here: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/obsidian.d.ts#L1894

[delashum]

fixed in 1.2.0